My name is David, and I am new to this forum. I am looking for the "Metta Bhavana" in the original Pali script, not transliterated or translated. I have two different transliterations, both from the temple I attend, but from different books. I would prefer the first one, but if one is more proper than the other, or if there is a third that is somewhere in-between, but correct, that would work too. I know that I'm asking a huge favour, but I just cannot find this prayer in Pali, and for years, I have wanted this particular prayer tattooed on myself to see everyday, as a reminder.

Any help that anybody here could give me--a picture from a book, a pdf file--any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here is the first script, taught to me by the elder monks while I was a novice monk.

Or if anybody has a link to another thread where this was previously asked, I would also appreciate that. I've spent the morning searching the forum for the script, but have had not luck. The best resource I've found is at http://www.virtualvinodh.com/brahmi-lip ... abhivadana but the script on that page does not display on my PC properly; it displays a bunch of triangles and circles, instead of Pali.

I am going to try to download a Pali font for my PC right now, in case that may help me to better view any resources that anybody may be kind enough to offer.

I'm sure someone will come along to help you soon, but I should just mention that there is no Pali script; Pali is just written in the script familiar with the reader, so a romanized version is just as "legitimate" as one in, say, Devanagari.

Gain and loss, status and disgrace, censure and praise, pleasure and pain:these conditions among human beings are inconstant,impermanent, subject to change.

8. First of all it should be developed only towards oneself, doing it repeatedlythus: “May I be happy and free from suffering” or “May I keep myself free fromenmity, affliction and anxiety and live happily.”

However, translated verses will be better for bhāvanā, if you aren't pali scholar.

I memorized verse of mettāsutta, and khandhaparitta (ahirajasutta). Then I always player those suttas to notice mettācitta, and dosacitta that relate with those sutta's subject matter such as dosa that arose when I faced a snake, or mettā when I saw some good boy. Then I will try to pause the same dosacitta and bhāvanā the same mettacitta.